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Deck facing southeast in spring Water Supply

Water for our home comes from a spring on our property several hundred feet above the house in elevation. It's a great system. The water is caught before it ever comes out of the rocks and piped to a 1,000 gallon holding tank and then down the mountain to our homes. We have it tested periodically and it always tests out as pure, clean spring water, the kind you pay premium prices for in bottles in the grocery store. However, western North Carolina has had drought conditions for most of the past three years. You can get a vivid picture of it at the National Drought Summary page maintained by the National Weather Service. This drought has reduced the flow of the spring and everyone needs to observe a few common-sense conservation measures.
  • Take shorter showers. A four-minute shower uses approximately 20 to 40 gallons of water.
  • When washing dishes by hand, don't leave the water running for rinsing. Fill one sink with soapy water and either fill the other one with rinse water or gather washed dishes in the empty sink and rinse them with the spray device.
  • Run the dishwasher only for full loads. Avoid the washing machine's permanent press cycle, which uses about five gallons for the extra rinse, and adjust the water level to match the size of the load (small, medium, large). Even better, you might try the clean, convenient laundromat in Barnardsville or wait and do them at home.
  • Don't let the faucet run while you clean vegetables. Just rinse them in a stoppered sink or a pan of clean water.
  • Keep a bottle of drinking water in the fridge instead of running tap water to cool it off for drinking.
  • Don't let the water run while brushing your teeth. Just wet your brush, turn off the water, then turn it back on for rinsing.
  • A few inches of warm water in the sink will rinse your razor just as well as running water and use much less water.
   

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